I have been meaning to post about this every October since I have been putting my mundane thoughts on the web some 15 Halloweens ago. As Halloween nears lots of listicles are coming out now with things to read, watch, wear. eat, and numerous other verbs. Most of them are being generated by Ai scraped out and plopped in your feed like so much pumpkin guts…or brains… When the pumpkin becomes a head the guts become brains…Anywho, this isn’t about pumpkin innards; it’s about a mysterious beast in Scotland (not that one) and a curse.
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Bang, Bang Lucky Luke
One of the benefits of a job like mine is constantly mining for material that might make a good exhibit. An added bonus, and one that cannot be overstated, is working in a library where you have access to an amazing amount of potential–including some surprises.
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In the Trenches
Other top contenders for the title of this post were “Consider the Trench Coat,” “Understanding the Trench Trope,” and “The Wearing of the Trope Coat.”
Gathering the content for my earlier Fantastic Four post brought to mind something else I have been wanting to put together. This one has to do with costumes, or more appropriately disguises over costumes, at least in these early cases.
Well That’s…Fantastic
One of the things we consciously try to do with (or for) our children is to not dump our nostalgia or fandoms onto them so they can develop their own affinities. Most of the time, it turns out they end up liking what we like. Other times it goes off in a different direction than you experienced and can open up a whole new world, or worlds.
This is one of those times.
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Berenstain Bears
This is another of those larger exhibits my son helps out on. I want to do a much longer post about the Berenstain Bears and their evolution across the decades, but this one was a bit of a test for something I want to do every year as a kind of a summer reading program.
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Beetlejuice, Betelgeuse, BeatleJuice
All the planning in the world to drop a new post the week the sequel was released failed. I had 36 years to do this. I even had time to collect all the books. But, better late than never, so here goes my two Beetlejuice stories.
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Way Out Wacky Races
What a summer of Wacky Races. We watched all the original series and all of the 2019 Boomerang Series as well. We also ventured across Arkansas ourselves to pick up our Count Car. I also still need to put together a post on Motor Movie Madness about all the racing films that came along in the vein of The Great Race.
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Garfield
Now we are down to school break and semester rotations. Wrapping up the Smurfs anniversary Garfield gets the exhibit treatment. Mostly from watching the old cartoon and reading the books we have.
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Smurfs at 65
Beakman and Ms. Frizzle was constant company for almost a year. But when school was out he wanted to change things up. We had been reading some old smurfs books and watching the old and new cartoons so he picked the Smurfs.
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Mummy Dearest
My son recently turned two. He also recently became incredibly interested in all things mummy. This could be from the six-feet-tall Tut sarcophagus bookshelf we have or it could be from one of the shows that we’ve watched. Anyone who has children will tell you that if the like something you get to partake of it over and over again. Luckily, there are a few outlets for mummy content across the shows we’ve been watching. It’s an interesting list if for nothing else than to think about how solidly Egyptology and Mummies’ Curses are engrained into our popular culture. Continue reading Mummy Dearest
